The Cast

Baroness Christina Jenevra de Carvalhal, Companion of the Order of the Laurel, known as Jenevra, is a bookbinder, herbalist, and young bard. Jenevra performed in El Cid and Njal's Saga, and also spends a good deal of time working 'backstage'.

Christine Connors is a high-tech librarian and thespian who is grateful she gets to indulge in the geekier parts of her life in the Modern Middle Ages.

THL Chiara da Montepulciano comes from a 16th c family of wine makers and merchants. After becoming curious about faith, Chiara travelled to the Desert for 10 years where she found a holy man who taught her how to Dispatch the Demiurgus to Demonte. A former King’s Bard of the East and Kingdom Bard of Ealdormere, she is recently returned to her family’s estates where she helps with the merchanting business and occasionally writes poetry and plays while waiting out the plague.

Ely T runs a health practice on an Island in Eastern Ontario. Ely has dipped her toes into producing, directing and even acting, and currently produces a monthly radio segment for their local station on CAM health care in the community while waiting out the plague.

The (Wrong and) Honorable Master Dahrien Cordell, O.P. and Oh No!, is (nominally) a 13th century Saxon from England who enjoys being the center of good attention. He is well known for playing Beowulf in the "Beowulf The Event" series, his audiences, and the fool.

Carlos Vigil is a 20th & 21st century American from Wisconsin who enjoys being the center of good attention. He is well known for playing Dahrien Cordell, his audiences, and the fool.

Lucas Abernathy/Erik D. Hall (Asst. Director/Performer) –Erik has been teaching English and theater at various levels in Piscataway, NJ for 19 years and performing and directing theater for over 35 years. At PHS, he is the director of the Musical and the Drama Club. Recently Erik has directed The Explorers Club for Circle Players and Co-Directed the Zoom performance of Gawain and the Green Knight for the Mid-Realm and for the last 20 years Erik has been acting, directing and writing for area Renaissance Festivals primarily with Period Productions. In addition to performance and directing, Erik is also an area Fight Choreographer who works with NJ community theaters. He would also like to thank his wife Christie and children Jacob, Phoebe, and Connor for their love and support.

Madam Ursula Mortimer is an English poet from a family once very close to the throne, but lately fallen on lean times. To restore her fortunes, she has taken service with Dr. Henry Best, a wizard sometimes in favor at court. She lives in London in the 1590s.

Michelle Hartz is a writer and editor of educational materials, a poet, and a performer in theatre, music, and the variety arts.

Lady Ealawynn Mæru (alias Ela) is a seventh-century Northumbrian Angle. She spends most of her days spinning, dyeing, weaving, and sewing, while her evenings are spent in song on the lyre. She is currently the King’s Bard of Atlantia and Minister of Arts and Sciences for the Shire of Roxbury Mill.

Elysse Meredith is an educator, musician, artist, and general sheep enthusiast. She received her PhD in Medieval Studies in 2012 from the University of Edinburgh, where she focused on the interpretation of color and clothing in 14th-century French and English literature and art history. You can find more of her work at sca.unspunworld.com.

THL Hilla Stormbringer can be seen (or at least heard) at events, singing, singing, singing, causing mischief and mayhem, and random telling of stories. Her persona is a later 6th-century scop from Mercia. She is the current Bard of the Midlands (in the Midrealm) and is apprenticed to Master Cerian Cantwr.

Pam Wolff is a singer and songwriter and poet outside of the SCA as well. She has loved the story of Beowulf since she was a child and is absolutely thrilled to be included in this performance.

Hanne Madeleine Paine came to this project through her love of unusual languages. She teaches a fictional language from science fiction show The Expanse, and is a student of Tolkien’s languages and languages from humanity’s real past and present. She also enjoys epic poetry from many cultures, with four translations of Beowulf on her bookshelf, though this will be her first experience performing it. Hanne Madeleine’s acting background is primarily in immersive theatre, with 5 years of character acting and storytelling at a space simulation camp, in small musical theatre productions, and in short films based on classic science fiction. She looks forward to visiting the past through Beowulf and future productions with this wonderful team.

Catherine Montgomery, painter of canvas, illustrator of biological tomes. Dancer of the Flurry, bicyclist of Hagadorn Hill. Hiker and climber of Ithaca's great water cascades. Grove tender of the succulent shrine. Ornithological surveyor and capturer of the dawn-image. Prime host of earworm contagion and song learner. Career maker of recreation therapy and love gifter.

Ingrid Ringler is an on-call doctor for wind turbines and likes capoeira, stories, and Norse things. She appeared in Njal’s Saga and is excited to be a part of this newest production of Beowulf.

Aneleda Falconbridge is performer from the Barony of Endewearde in the East Kingdom. Favorite roles include an amorous sausage person (and other amorous roles) in "Gargantua" with i Sebastiani, cast member of The Saga of Burnt Niall, and most recently the Second Gravedigger in the Zoom production of Hamlet. She is known best in the Society as a singer-songwriter performing both historic and subcultural folk works. Her music can be found at falconbridge.bandcamp.com.

Monique Bouchard is a historic interpreter who preforms tours as Maine's infamous 19th century madam Fan Jones and occasionally leads tours around an historic cemetery in the dark.

Bugga Bilibit æ Elediche is best known for leading the Pilgrimage Project at Pennsic this past seven or eight years. She leads an intrepid group of passionate singers around camp the Tuesday of War Week singing through songs from the LLibre Vermell de Montserrat and the Cantigas de Santa Maria. Currently she is working on a podcast about the Cantigas. She is a proud resident of the Barony-Marche of the Debatable Lands in the kingdom of Æthelmearc.

Kathryn Kane is a massage therapist currently unemployed due to the virus, and knitting all the things, as well as studying Spanish, movement meditation, and working on that podcast with Bugga.

Duchess Thyra Eiriksdottir is a Danish scribe (among other arts) and a penchant for dancing at the slightest provocation. Storytelling is close enough to public speaking to be inside her bailiwick.

Karen Veale studied the Norse sagas in college, studied Old Norse in grad school, but works in pharma, because SCIENCE.

Agnete Jessupsdottir looks a great deal like Maestra Ana de Guzmán in a smokkr. (Perhaps her mother was snatched off the shores of the Iberian peninsula?) She resides in the East Kingdom in the Shire of Rusted Woodlands. She is always drawn to cultures that take their poetry seriously. She has been careful when she attends "campfires" of late, staying one step ahead of this cursed plague. Ana de Guzmán has been a King's Bard for Andreas II, and Queen's Bard for Gabriella I. She has also performed in La Poema de Mio Cid and Njal's Saga, and in the now-prophetic A Day of the Decameron.

Ana Keveney has been laid off and is laying low due to the pandemic. She has been a proofreader, copy editor, and customer service representative for various employers as a contractor, and is waiting for the next work-from-home contract to land in her lap.

Goði Fridrikr Tomasson is a 13th century Icelander, living near Reykholt. In the SCA, he lives in the Barony of Thescorre, Kingdom of Æthelmearc.

Tom Ireland-Delfs is a retired teacher, recent grad student, and aspiring doctoral student. He is a father and a grandfather of two (with a third on the way). He lives with his wife, Orilee, and two cats, in Newark, NY.

Baroness Audrye Beneyt found her love for voice heraldry in 2013 when Endewearde became a Barony. With a love of crafting magic, Audrye has worked behind the thrones of several reigns and currently serves as Eastern Crown Herald in the East Kingdom. When not heralding, Audrye is a scribe with a focus on illumination, and is just beginning to dabble in bardic arts.

Danielle Hunt currently lives in Massachusetts with her two children, two dogs, two cats, and two fish. Yes, it is a menagerie.

Morgana has been in the SCA since 1977, and has been a storyteller and poet for most of that time. She has been a list mistress, head of a Bardic College, and Royal Bard. She has served the Pennsic War for 20 years in many roles, including as Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and head of the Troll Booth. Morgana appeared in Beowulf The Road Show.  Her work has been released on CD's, and her poem, Huginn Saga, will soon be released, pandemic permitting.

Carole Shieber is a retired medical secretary, hardware salesperson, professional driver, and bar maid. 

Ollaṁ Brendan O Corraidhe, OL, (AH-liv BREN-dan oh COR-ee) is a 10th-century Irish fellow. Born to poor parents, he was left at a monastery as an infant. There he learned to read and write, and developed a talent for storytelling and music. Like many contemporary Irish monks he was sent to Europe to evangelize the heathens on the Continent. Eventually he found himself in the Current Middle Ages about AS XIV.

Corrie Bergeron teaches college teachers how to teach with technology.

Cedar-san Barefoot is a singer and storyteller, and a former Baronial Bardic Champion of Concordia of the Snows in the East Kingdom.

Mistress Aífe ingen Conchobair in Derthaige is a longtime performer in the SCA. Most recently, she directed & acted in a production of Hamlet, sponsored by the East Kingdom and still available on the East Kingdom youtube channel. She has participated in Njal's Saga and the Decameron; and was an assistant or codirector in earlier productions of Beowulf. She would like to thank her husband Joel and her daughter Saoirse for their support.

Zsof is best known as the founder of the Known World Players. When not acting and directing, she tells stories of the Magyar and knits.

Karoline Kramer is an actress, singer, and ukelele player who also happens to have a day job involving project management, website design, and writing code.

Master Peregrine the Illuminator is a woodworker and painter from Kells, Ireland in 810, helping the monks who illuminate manuscripts.

Pellegrino d’Illuminatore is a weaver and storyteller from Florence in 1490, known for his Perugia linens.

Michael Moore is a Data Governance Analyst from the Boston area in 2020, researching many obscure crafts and topics, and improving his storytelling skills through Toastmasters and SCA Bardic activities, including performing in Beowulf the Event and the Gawain and the Green Knight Zoom performance.

Master Toki Skáldagörvir, OL was the Artistic Director of Beowulf the Event in the East, Beowulf the Roadshow at Pennsic, and Njal's Saga in AEthelmearc.

Michael Dixon works in health insurance. His theatre experience is on the technical side, having worked as stagehand for Proctor's Schenectady and IATSE Local 14, as Assistant Master Electrician on a national tour of Singin' in the Rain, Assistant Technical Director for the Portsmouth Music Hall, and as Master Electrician for the Mark Twain Musical Drama.